Visual Studio Contracts

Microsoft Visual Studio
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Visual Studio skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Visual Studio over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 446 379
Rank change year-on-year +56 -67 -47
Contract jobs citing Visual Studio 213 275 613
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.46% 0.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.11% 3.05% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 193 401
10th Percentile £375 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £418 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -2.19% +10.76%
75th Percentile £591 £590 £656
90th Percentile £675 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +18.89% - +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 15
10th Percentile - £43.53 £41.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £51.47 £48.22
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £63.60
90th Percentile - - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £61.08
% change year-on-year +18.18% -9.95% +35.72%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Visual Studio is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,178 9,015 15,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.10% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,476 6,340 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 246 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.90 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Visual Studio
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Visual Studio as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio.

Daily rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Visual Studio.

Hourly rate trend for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Visual Studio over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Visual Studio in the UK

Visual Studio
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Visual Studio within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +58 191 £535 +2.88% 159
UK excluding London +45 117 £535 +18.89% 120
Work from Home +69 99 £535 +1.90% 61
London +73 74 £550 - 38
Midlands +65 48 £535 +18.89% 35
West Midlands +68 47 £535 +25.88% 28
South East +10 36 £575 +10.58% 31
South West +12 13 £580 +18.97% 22
East of England -11 11 £550 +49.15% 7
North of England +17 5 £408 -6.32% 21
Yorkshire +17 3 £350 -26.32% 3
North West +18 2 £520 +30.00% 17
Northern Ireland +10 2 - -
East Midlands +21 1 - - 7
Scotland +19 1 - - 8
Wales +13 1 £210 -35.38%

Visual Studio
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.41%) CMS
2 3 (1.41%) IIS
2 3 (1.41%) Umbraco
3 2 (0.94%) Apache
3 2 (0.94%) EPiServer
3 2 (0.94%) Jadu
3 2 (0.94%) NServiceBus
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) Kentico
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.94%) Mingle
4 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) LabWindows
2 2 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.94%) Endur
2 2 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (37.56%) Azure
2 57 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (9.86%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.51%) Serverless
5 15 (7.04%) AWS
6 14 (6.57%) Azure Functions
6 14 (6.57%) Entra ID
7 13 (6.10%) Azure Logic Apps
8 12 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (4.69%) PaaS
10 9 (4.23%) Azure API Management
10 9 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (3.76%) SaaS
12 6 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.82%) GitHub
12 6 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (2.82%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.41%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (1.41%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.76%) Ethernet
1 8 (3.76%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.35%) RS-232
3 2 (0.94%) Firewall
3 2 (0.94%) Network Security
3 2 (0.94%) VPN
4 1 (0.47%) 2G
4 1 (0.47%) 5G
4 1 (0.47%) MQTT
4 1 (0.47%) NFC
4 1 (0.47%) PPP
4 1 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (26.76%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (5.16%) Power BI
4 10 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (3.29%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.82%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.88%) Tableau
9 3 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.94%) MySQL
10 2 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.94%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.94%) SSDT
11 1 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.47%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.47%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 54 (25.35%) PVCS
2 40 (18.78%) Git
3 25 (11.74%) SpecFlow
4 24 (11.27%) Selenium
5 22 (10.33%) Jenkins
6 17 (7.98%) WebDriver
7 13 (6.10%) Postman
8 11 (5.16%) Eclipse
9 10 (4.69%) JIRA
9 10 (4.69%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (4.23%) NUnit
11 7 (3.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (2.82%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (2.35%) Moq
13 5 (2.35%) MSI
13 5 (2.35%) WiX
14 4 (1.88%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.88%) Cypress.io
14 4 (1.88%) Subversion
14 4 (1.88%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (18.31%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.62%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.33%) Finance
4 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.10%) Banking
6 10 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.76%) Back Office
7 8 (3.76%) Military
8 7 (3.29%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.82%) Front Office
9 6 (2.82%) Marketing
10 3 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.41%) Electronics
10 3 (1.41%) Legal
10 3 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.47%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.47%) Automotive
11 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 68 (31.92%) Developer
2 53 (24.88%) Programmer
3 51 (23.94%) C Programmer
4 30 (14.08%) Analyst
5 25 (11.74%) Senior
6 21 (9.86%) Software Engineer
7 18 (8.45%) .NET Developer
7 18 (8.45%) C# Developer
8 17 (7.98%) Test Analyst
9 14 (6.57%) Senior Analyst
9 14 (6.57%) Senior Test Analyst
10 10 (4.69%) C# Software Engineer
11 9 (4.23%) Azure Developer
11 9 (4.23%) C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (4.23%) Integration Developer
12 8 (3.76%) C# .NET Developer
12 8 (3.76%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.29%) Architect
14 6 (2.82%) Test Automation Engineer
14 6 (2.82%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (40.85%) .NET
2 30 (14.08%) XML
3 28 (13.15%) .NET Framework
3 28 (13.15%) AngularJS
4 22 (10.33%) REST
5 20 (9.39%) JSON
6 19 (8.92%) ASP.NET
7 17 (7.98%) Entity Framework
8 13 (6.10%) Web Services
9 12 (5.63%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.69%) ARM Templates
10 10 (4.69%) React
11 9 (4.23%) HTML
11 9 (4.23%) Node.js
11 9 (4.23%) RESTful
11 9 (4.23%) SOAP
12 8 (3.76%) LINQ
12 8 (3.76%) OAuth
13 7 (3.29%) OpenID
13 7 (3.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.23%) Derivative
2 6 (2.82%) Client/Server
2 6 (2.82%) Fixed Income
2 6 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (2.82%) NHS
2 6 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.35%) Equities
3 5 (2.35%) Web 2.0
4 4 (1.88%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.88%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 4 (1.88%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.88%) Reinsurance
4 4 (1.88%) Replication
5 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.94%) Market Risk
5 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.94%) Social Media
5 2 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.37%) Windows
2 26 (12.21%) Linux
3 6 (2.82%) Unix
3 6 (2.82%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.94%) Android
6 1 (0.47%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (34.27%) Agile
2 68 (31.92%) DevOps
3 49 (23.00%) CI/CD
4 39 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (18.31%) Scrum
4 39 (18.31%) Test Automation
5 32 (15.02%) TDD
6 31 (14.55%) Software Engineering
7 26 (12.21%) Performance Testing
8 22 (10.33%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (9.86%) Migration
10 19 (8.92%) B2C
10 19 (8.92%) Software Testing
11 18 (8.45%) BDD
11 18 (8.45%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (7.98%) Manual Testing
12 17 (7.98%) Unit Testing
13 14 (6.57%) Configuration Management
13 14 (6.57%) OO
14 13 (6.10%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 103 (48.36%) C#
2 62 (29.11%) SQL
3 60 (28.17%) C
4 55 (25.82%) PL/SQL
5 41 (19.25%) PowerShell
6 34 (15.96%) C++
7 27 (12.68%) JavaScript
8 19 (8.92%) Python
9 13 (6.10%) Java
9 13 (6.10%) T-SQL
10 7 (3.29%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.29%) VBA
11 4 (1.88%) Perl
11 4 (1.88%) PHP
11 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.94%) Bash
12 2 (0.94%) Bicep
12 2 (0.94%) C++/CLI
12 2 (0.94%) Ruby
12 2 (0.94%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 79 (37.09%) Security Cleared
2 78 (36.62%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.80%) Degree
4 7 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.35%) ISTQB
5 5 (2.35%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.41%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.41%) ISEB
6 3 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.92%) QA
2 9 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.94%) WCAG
5 1 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (7.04%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.63%) Docker
3 6 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) LXC
Systems Management
1 14 (6.57%) Ansible
2 3 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.41%) PingFederate
3 2 (0.94%) SCOM
3 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 68 (31.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.41%) HP
2 3 (1.41%) IBM
2 3 (1.41%) Optimizely
2 3 (1.41%) Oracle
2 3 (1.41%) Proofpoint
2 3 (1.41%) SAP
2 3 (1.41%) Symantec
3 2 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (0.94%) Google
3 2 (0.94%) Remedy
3 2 (0.94%) Salesforce
3 2 (0.94%) VMware
3 2 (0.94%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.47%) Adobe
4 1 (0.47%) Brio
4 1 (0.47%) Facebook
4 1 (0.47%) Intel
4 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.47%) Twitter